Valentine's Day business booming

10:19 AM,
Feb. 14, 2013

Chocolate-covered strawberries are one of the most popular items for the holiday.

Written by

Greg Hilburn
ghilburn@thenewsstar.com

Dean and René Crowe were dipping sweet red strawberries into white and milk chocolate and tart green Granny Smith apples into creamy, sticky caramel as fast as they could at their Bayou Chocolate shop in Monroe Wednesday.

"We can't make them fast enough," said Dean Crowe, who opened the shop on Forsythe Avenue with his wife in October. "It's incredible."

Candy shop owners and florists throughout northeastern Louisiana were frantically trying to keep up with demand all week as it led to Valentine's Day today. ...